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Author:   Jae Jung Song (Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Otago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.482kg
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9780199281251

ISBN 10:   0199281254
Pages:   778
Publication Date:   25 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations: History, Theory, and Method 1: Paolo Ramat: The (Early) History of Linguistic Typology 2: Giorgi Graffi: The Pioneers of Linguistic Typology: From Gabelentz to Greenberg 3: Michael Daniel: Linguistic Typology and the Study of Language 4: Edith Moravcsik: Explaining Language Universals 5: Leon Stassen: The Problem of Cross-linguistic Identification 6: Dik Bakker: Language Sampling Part II: Theoretical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology 7: Joan Bybee: Markedness: Iconicity, Economy, and Frequency 8: John Haiman: Competing Motivations 9: Johan van der Auwera and Volker Gast: Categories and Prototypes 10: Greville G. Corbett: Implicational Hierarchies 11: John A. Hawkins: Processing Efficiency and Complexity in Typological Patterns 12: Sonia Cristofaro: Language Universals and Linguistic Knowledge Part III: Empirical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology 13: Jae Jung Song: Word Order Typology 14: Walter Bisang: Word Classes 15: Beatrice Primus: Case Marking Typology 16: Anna Siewierska: Person Marking 17: Seppt Kittilä: Transitivity Typology 18: Leonid Kulikov: Voice Typology 19: Balthasar Bickel: Grammatical Relations Typology 20: Ferdinand de Haan: Typology of Tense, Aspect, and Modality Systems 21: Lindsay Whaley: Syntactic Typology 22: Dunstan Brown: Morphological Typology 23: Nicholas Evans: Semantic Typology 24: Ian maddieson: Typology of Phonological Systems Part IV: Linguistic Typology in a Wider Context 25: Kenneth Shields: Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics 26: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm: Linguistic Typology and Language Contact 27: Melissa Bowerman: Linguistic Typology and First Language Acquisition 28: Fred R. Eckman: Linguistic Typology and Second language Acquisition 29: patience Epps: Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation 30: Maria Polinsky: Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar References Author Index Language Index Subject Index

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Especially useful for readers who are not themselves engaged in mainstream typology but who wish to follow or catch up on it. Anthropological Linguistics

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Jung Jae Song is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. His books include Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Perspective, 1996 (Addison Wesley Longman); Case, Typology and Grammar, 1998, co-edited with Anna Siewierska (Benjamins); Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax, 2001 (Pearson); The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context, 2005 (Routledge); and Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition, 2006 (Saffron Books). He has held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), and La Trobe University (Melbourne).

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